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To: Kelly_2000
For me the most disturbing thing, is why the patients recieving clinical care are not recovering 1 in 4 of them should be doing just that.

ALL of the infected medical personnel have died.

Past press reports put the number at 17, although yesterday I saw a reference upping the number to 19.

You would think that if anyone survived, it would be the medical people. That NONE have survived is quite significant.

Only one person is reported to have recovered, and that is questionable. No details were provided, not even how the person was treated. Nor did they address the question of whether the person was still contagious.

48 posted on 05/04/2005 11:24:43 AM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: EternalHope

This is also much longer than an VHF outbreak should have lasted. But the stunning fatalities amongst the patient groups that have recieved clinical care is just well nothing short of staggering. words fail me


49 posted on 05/04/2005 11:27:51 AM PDT by Kelly_2000
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To: EternalHope
You would think that if anyone survived, it would be the medical people. That NONE have survived is quite significant.

The medical people are the most likely to accept and cooperate with supportive treatment. Others may have been scared away by the high mortality observed in the hospital setting. We don't know the quality of the supportive treatment offered, thus we might be making an incorrect assumption about whether ideal treatment could have improved the outcome.

53 posted on 05/04/2005 12:30:00 PM PDT by Myrddin
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